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Letter signed from Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Shanghai (China), to Robert Sterling Clark, New York (N.Y.), 1928 November 9

Letter signed from Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Shanghai (China), to Robert Sterling Clark, New York (N.Y.), 1928 November 9. Page 1 (recto)

Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby informs Clark that he hasn't received the second half of his annual payment yet and wonders whether the check has gone astray in the mail. He indicates that things are improving in China and wonders whether Clark still wants updates on the economic and political situations. He intimates that he is privy to greater information than previously, but wants Clark's assurance that this information would be treated confidentially. Sowerby also tells Clark that he has a collection of specimens ready for shipment, but due to political constraints surrounding sending such things out of the country, he's waiting to send it.

Arthur de Carle Sowerby was a naturalist, explorer and writer who accompanied Robert Sterling Clark on his 1908-09 expedition to the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in northern China. Sowerby remained in China collecting specimens for various museums of natural history and editing the journal he'd founded, The China Journal of Science and Arts. He was interned by the Japanese during World War II and returned to the United States in 1949. RSC funded Sowerby for many years. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1923 through 1930, with letters through 1953, the year before Sowerby's death. Most of the letters are from Sowerby, with some carbon copies of brief notes sent by RSC. The letters concern the often dire state of Sowerby’s finances as well as updates on his scientific pursuits and analyses of the tumultuous political and economic situation in China.

Letter from Arthur de Carle Sowerby in China to Robert Sterling Clark in which Sowerby informs Clark that he hasn't received the second half of his annual payment yet and wonders whether the check has gone astray in the mail. He indicates that things are improving in China and wonders whether Clark still wants updates on the economic and political situations. He intimates that he is privy to greater information than previously, but wants Clark's assurance that this information would be treated confidentially. Sowerby also tells Clark that he has a collection of specimens ready for shipment, but due to political constraints surrounding sending such things out of the country, he's waiting to send it.

Arthur de Carle Sowerby was a naturalist, explorer and writer who accompanied Robert Sterling Clark on his 1908-09 expedition to the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in northern China. Sowerby remained in China collecting specimens for various museums of natural history and editing the journal he'd founded, The China Journal of Science and Arts. He was interned by the Japanese during World War II and returned to the United States in 1949. RSC funded Sowerby for many years. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1923 through 1930, with letters through 1953, the year before Sowerby's death. Most of the letters are from Sowerby, with some carbon copies of brief notes sent by RSC. The letters concern the often dire state of Sowerby’s finances as well as updates on his scientific pursuits and analyses of the tumultuous political and economic situation in China.